Management - it's Not What You Think

Management? Think Again! 1) Management Mosaic The Manager as Orchestra Conductor Peter Drucker, Jan Carlson and Leonard Sayles Management: Be careful what you think Henry Mintzberg What MANAGEMENT Says and What Managers Do Albert Shapero Management and Magic Martin l. Gimpl and Stephen R. Dakin 2) Management of Meaning Problems, problems, problems Smullyan Waffle Words Lucy Kellaway Mana-gems PowerPoint is Evil Edward Tufte Planning as Public Relations Henry Mintzberg The Opposite of a Profound Truth is also True R. Farson Systematic Buzz Word Generator Lew Gloin 3) Misleading Management There are no Leaders, There is only Leadership Richard Farson Conversations from a Corner Office John Mackeytalks with Kai Ryssdal A Star Executive Does Not Make a Company John Kay Rules for being a heroic leader Henry Mintzberg A Descent in the Dark R.R. Reno Leadership and Communityship Henry Mintzberg 4) Myths of Managing Outsourcing the Outsourcers Spotting Management Fads Danny Miller Musings on Management Henry Mintzberg To Err is Human Spyros G. Makridakis CEOs: Some gamblers Henry Mintzberg 5) Maxims of Managing Laws and Rules from A to Z Unattributed Parkinson's Law Cyril Northcote Parkinson Maxims in Need of a Makeover Justin Ewers Why Most Managers are Plagiarists Lucy Kellaway 6)Masters of Managing? Managers Not MBAs (excerpts) Henry Mintzberg Harvard's Masters of the Apocalypse Phillip Devies Broughton Games Business Schools Play Andrew J. Policano 7) Metamorphosing Management "Change Management" is an Oxymoron Jim Clemmer Senior Managers Aren't Cooks, They're Ingredients David K. Hurst Staying on track Backing Into a Brilliant Strategy Richard Pascale A Parable of Modern Change Crafting Strategy Henry Mitnzberg Wither our Wiki, Worldly, Wounded World Jonathan Gosling 8) Managing Modestly Yee gods, what do I do now? Ian Hamilton A Long Overdue Letter to the Board Henry Mintzberg Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas William C. Taylor Managing Quietly Henry Mintzberg

"Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker" a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guru Henry Mintzberg is one of today's best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he is always interesting and usually controversial and holds the management and strategy communities in thrall. Bruce Ahlstrand likes to prospect for strategy gems in unlikely places - from the game of Texas Hold'em to the Greek tragedies. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Bruce is the author is currently a professor of management at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. Joe Lampel began his career believing that strategy is the answer, but has recently concluded that it may be the answer to the wrong question. He first began to suspect this terrible truth during the long journey that produced the first edition of Strategy Safari. Joe was awarded a PhD in management by McGill University for good behaviour.